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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (6717)	8/19/2002 3:49:37 AM
From: Yorikke	Respond to of 33421

Hawk, I do not dispute your personal experiences. Perhaps 70% of the worlds population lives in poverty and they don't have any work fare option. Most Americans have no concept of the squalid conditions the majority of the human population lives in. It’s easy to say it’s their problem, however it will continue to be an essential aspect of international politics. How we deal with it seems to be knocking American policy around at every turn. It is apparent that we don't understand what we are faced with. And in this country when it comes to feeding children, the next generation, it doesn't really matter what kind of wastrels their parents may or may not be. They need to be fed and cared for. In this country there is no excuse. And there is every reason to spend the money to save these children before they end up in our prisons, rather than working and paying taxes like good productive citizens. There is a growing need for the government to implement a very large expenditure program to prime this economy. (Tax cuts and lowering the interest rates have run their course)Much of this expenditure could be used to increase the welfare of children and improve education among those who live in and on the fringes of poverty. If somebody wants to call a part of it reparations it doesn't bother me. As long as it goes directly to child health and education I have no problems with it. The point I was making in the previous post is that no one should confuse the fact that people can come through periods of poverty and be very good people in spite of it; with the fact that poverty is an inhibitor, a stifler, and a consumer of humanity. There is no good aspect of poverty. ...Unless one is out to exploit the desperation of the poor.